 Hello, and welcome to the Gary Stewart Show, presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, joined by Stevenson Headman's basketball coach, Gary Stewart. Coach, you were actually twice last week, started off Wednesday night at Lemon Valley. You were up midway through the second half, and then very tight back and forth game, and Lemon Valley was just going to make a couple of plays right there at the end. Kind of take us to that game a little bit. Well, I thought that we executed well in relationship to what we were trying to do. They've got two really, really good players, and Andy Orr on the interior. We held him to eight shots. And then Sam Light is a guy that warned special attention, and we forced him into a seven or 16 night. So when you do that against those two guys, you got to feel pretty good about where you're going to be. But conversely, Ricky Buck had a good one against us, and we needed to hold him to his average. And I think he scored 24 points, and that was to our detriment. Yeah, sometimes that's a problem. Sometimes you shut down the guys you want to shut down. And somebody, the third guy, kind of step up and hurt you a little bit. But overall, you were kind of pleased with how you executed. Just, you know, you need to make a couple more shots. Yeah, our execution down the stretch wasn't as good as we'd like. But it wasn't for lack of effort. I thought our guys really fought hard and competed well. Yeah, then Saturday you were home. I'd say the same thing. I thought you guys played hard. I thought they played well in stretches, just ultimately. A couple of big runs at the start of each half kind of killed you. Yeah, we got off to a really bad start. And the game was really choppy in the first half. There wasn't very much continuity for either team. And we were very fortunate to go in down seven. We had great contribution from some guys off our bench. And then defensively, after the bad start, we dug in a little bit defensively and forced a 29 point first half. Unfortunately, we weren't able to sustain that. In the second half, we got going a little bit offensively, scored 40 points, but we needed the same type of defensive effort and it wasn't there. Yeah, I think they scored like 15 points in the first five or six minutes. So you held them really to 14 over the last 14 or 15 minutes. So a good defensive effort there. And like I say, you got down to four, went in down seven. So it's certainly the effort was there. Like you said, some guys off the bench stepped up and gave you some minutes and gave you some energy. Yeah, the one thing that's plaguing us is the consistency. And the consistency, I mean, in all areas. Defensively, we gave up some straight line drives that we've been really working on trying to get our help defense there and guard the ball a little bit better. And we did that for stretches of the game, but we were hurt down the stretch with penetration. We did a good job of getting out to their shooters and running them off the three point line. Then we lost track of shooters for a period there and they had consecutive three point shots. And I think in a five minute stretch, they had three. And so those things are really hurting us. When we have a lull or we have a situation where we're not as consistent whether it be offensively or defensively, teams are taking advantage of it. Yeah, so this week you go back, you know, two more Mac Commonwealth games, both on the road. I'm here at Messiah Wednesday night and at Winder Saturday. You know, obviously at this point, you're kind of taking one game at a time. You know, obviously, you know, still, I'm not sure, still mathematically alive or not for Mac Commonwealth playoffs, but obviously you're taking one game at a time starting Wednesday night. So we've got Messiah Wednesday. They're playing very, very well. But we've got good players and we have to stay positive. Another opportunity for us Wednesday to play a very, very good team. And it'll take our full concentration, but we're excited about it. Yeah, and then obviously Saturday you go wide again. A game, you know, very close. You know, like every game in the conference, very close game here at home, you know, they beat you over time. We're looking for that game, the same thing. Well, it kind of shows you where the league is. The first time we played Winder, as you mentioned, they beat us in overtime and then they've struggled and then you look, look Saturday in the box score and they beat like, so anybody can beat anybody in our league and that's what makes it fun, fun to watch. I think fun to play in and certainly fun to coach. Yeah, absolutely. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck on the road this week and I'll talk to you next week. Thank you, Greg. All right, for Gary Stewart, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Gary Stewart Show.